From PC Mag: Almost two years ago, Kickstarter acquired a startup called Drip, designed to help music fans support artists through subscriptions. Now, Kickstarter is relaunching Drip to help more creators get paid.

Similar to services like Patreon, Drip is designed for ongoing funding rather than a...

From CNET: If you get into a new Lincoln Continental or Navigator, its optional head-up display (HUD) may surprise you with its brightness, clarity and visibility through polarized glasses. Those qualities come courtesy of a fundamentally different technology than used by other automakers. Instead...

From The Verge: Amazon launched Prime Music and Alexa in Canada today, along with three devices that support the voice assistant: the Echo, Echo Plus, and Echo Dot. Amazon says Alexa will speak English with a Canadian accent and have local knowledge and local skills — Alexa's voice-activated apps —...

From PC Mag: Verizon's upcoming 5G home internet service won't have the kinds of data limits you expect from current wireless services, the company said today.

Verizon has been trying out its new 5G home internet service for months. In a tour of its New Jersey lab, we got a closer look at the 5G...

From CNET: Hackers who get hold of some OnePlus phones can get virtually unlimited access to their files and software through use of a testing tool called EngineerMode the company evidently left on the devices.

Robert Baptiste, a freelance security researcher who goes by the name Elliot Alderson on...

From The Verge: HTC has officially revealed the Vive Focus, its all-in-one VR headset. As previously announced, the Vive Focus runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip and uses inside-out positional tracking. It should be the first standalone six-degrees-of-freedom VR headset to see release, though...

From CNET: Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox Quantum, and even if you long ago switched to Google Chrome, it's worth giving the browser upgrade a spin.

Why? First and foremost, version 57 of the open-source browser is faster -- twice the speed of Firefox 52 from March as measured by the...

From PC Mag: Ask anyone to name a massively-multiplayer online game and chances are their response will be World of Warcraft. But there are many more MMOs out there that have been running for years and continue to attract millions of players. One of those games is Tera, developed by Bluehole Studio...

From CNET: Qualcomm to Broadcom: Take your billions and go homecomm.

The board of directors at Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of chips and processors for phones, unanimously rejected a massive unsolicited takeover bid from Broadcom, which makes chips for everything from cable modems to set-top...

From The Verge: It might feel like Google is following Apple’s script right now: remove the headphone jack from your flagship phone, ship the phone with a depressingly bad dongle adapter, and announce a new pair of revolutionary Bluetooth headphones to divert the you-caused frustrations of your...